Do You Have a Social Choice Architecture?

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In Portugal, in the year two thousand had one of the worst drug problems in the world. One % of the population was addicted to heroine and every year they tried the american way more. They focused on that negative stimuli approach, right? And every year the problem got worse. So a huge programm of reconnection developed for people with an ediction problem. According to the best study by british jarology, it was the largest fall in criminology since 13 years ago.

What causes addiction? Johann Hari, author of Chasing the Scream, travelled some 30,000 miles in search of an answer. He met with researchers and lawmakers, drug dealers and drug makers, those who were struggling with substance abuse and those who had recovered from it, and he came to the conclusion that our whole narrative about addiction is broken. "The opposite of addiction is not sobriety," he argues. "The opposite of addiction is connection." But first, we have to figure out what it really means to connect.